Exact time/date of RSA Expiration

2000-07-24 Thread Will Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anybody provide insight into the question of exactly when the RSA patent expires beyond just September 20? Does that mean that previously infringing software can be made available *on* September 20 or on September 21? Is there a particular time

Re: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP

2000-07-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Murray writes: Why not send then a SDA that contains a copy of PGP, installs it, generates a key for the user, posts it to a keyserver, sets up the correct MIME content-type hooks in the user's browser, and then send them the real PGP-encrypted file 10 minutes

John Young, CIA files, and FBI pressure - hard to access cryptome.org

2000-07-24 Thread John Gilmore
If you wondered why our favorite archive was a bit slow, this is why. So now don't all of you go off and add to the load -- you probably won't get in anyway. Either lots of people like pulling down documents they aren't supposed to have, or perhaps some spook agency worldwide is doing a

Re: Weak user keys, strong servers.

2000-07-24 Thread David Jablon
At 09:48 AM 7/23/00 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: ... The public key is G^(p+q). The secret key is p+q, and the user never seeks to find out q. The server establishes the user's identity by verifying that he knows p corresponding to the shared secret G^p. It then, on a secure

Re: Exact time/date of RSA Expiration

2000-07-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Will Price wrote: Can anybody provide insight into the question of exactly when the RSA patent expires beyond just September 20? Does that mean that previously infringing software can be made available *on* September 20 or on September 21? Is there a particular time

airport searches

2000-07-24 Thread Eugene Leitl
SteveC writes: At the risk of going against the tide, I would rather be in a country where they did search some percentage of the incoming passport holders belongings than one where they didn't. They can search for things which can harm other people on the flight. This involves plastique,